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Sunday 26 Jul 2015 - 14:53 Makkah mean time-10-10-1436
 Ankara (IINA) - Two Turkish soldiers have been killed and four others wounded in a car bomb attack in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir, while Turkish aircraft continued bombing ISIL positions in neighboring Syria and Kurdish fighters in Iraq.
The blast struck a military vehicle passing through the town of Lice on Saturday night. Local officials and state media blamed the attack on "terrorists", but did not name a specific group. No one has yet claimed responsibility for the explosion, Al Jazeera reported. "Two of our personnel were killed in the heinous attack, four were wounded," a statement from Diyarbakir's governor's office said, adding that large-scale operations have been launched to find the perpetrators.The attack came amid ongoing military campaigns, which began on Friday, one against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group across the border in Syria, and the other targeting the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) in northern Iraq.
The air raids followed a suicide bombing in the southern Turkish town of Suruc earlier in the week that killed dozens of Kurdish activists. Turkish authorities blamed ISIL for that attack. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said the military operations would not have a timeframe, indicating a prolonged offensive. The PKK said Turkish strikes on its bases meant the government in Ankara had ended a fragile 2013 ceasefire between the two sides. The Kurdish group that seeks self-rule has for decades waged a deadly rebellion in Turkey's southeast that claimed tens of thousands of lives.
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